Andrew Garcia

Unlike some of my counterparts here at eWEEK, I am among those who think application whitelisting is definitely an interesting idea whose time has come for greater exploration in the enterprise. But administrators don’t need to buy into the concept over the whole enterprise, as there are places where it makes more sense – particularly […]

The recent revelation that Microsoft covertly installed software on users PCs via the Automatic Updates application has reduced savvy users confidence in the controls they actually have over their computers, while muddying the users role and responsibility in maintaining the operating system. While it is a patently bad practice for a software company to install […]

AirMagnet has done some pretty good work over the last couple years integrating Cognio’s spectrum analysis capabilities into the AirMagnet Enterprise and Laptop product lines. This integration has given AirMagnet insight into the RF plane to help root out interference issues affecting wireless network performance, and has been a real differentiator for them in the […]

eWEEK Labs Verifies Unauthorized Windows Update Amid reports that Microsoft’s Automatic Updates was performing unauthorized updates of itself, Microsoft Watchs Joe Wilcox asked eWEEK Labs to check to see whether the allegations were true. Combing through the Event Viewer logs on several computers I ma eWEEK Labs Verifies Unauthorized Windows Update – Updates ?ö?ç??Denied’ Ive […]

I’ve always been one to put a leash on Automatic Updates. Sure, you can download the patches to my machine, but please notify me before they get installed. I always look through the knowledgebase articles before installing anything. Inevitably, I accept everything the agent offers me, but I still want that control over what goes […]

Many tools on the market still rely on the e-model for voice assessment, measuring network conditions such as latency and jitter, and running them through an algorithm to generate an R-Factor score. This score can be translated to a MOS (Mean Opinion Score) value, but MOS-based assessments are fundamentally flawed for use with high-definition VOIP […]

Should You Heed the Call for HD Voice?”> High-definition voice over IP—as exemplified by Polycoms HD Voice technology—provides outstanding quality and clarity for calls within a companys borders and could be an important building block for a range of applications in the future. However, shortcomings of the Public Switched Telephone Network—and of the telecommunications industry […]

I have totally hopped on board with the whole mobile video thing since I got my iPhone a couple months ago. My commute home is precisely the right length to knock out an hour-long TV show (sans commercials, of course). Instead of buying content from iTunes, however, I have been working with the tools I […]

In what has to be one of the most surprising announcements I’ve ever heard, Steve Jobs posted an open letter on the Apple Web site that throws a bone to early iPhone adopters up in arms about the drastic price drop. In a nutshell, Apple will be offering early iPhone customers a $100 credit good […]

Thanks to Engadget’s real-time blog, I’ve been following along with today’s Apple announcements without taking the trouble of walking the four blocks to the Moscone Center. I didn’t think there would be any enterprise spin to the announcements, and on the surface that thought has proven correct. But the announcement of the new iPod Touch […]

Palm CEO Ed Colligan has announced via blog that the Palm Foleo is dead. With Palm focusing on the next-generation Palm operating system and development platform (of which we hope to see the first signs here), the Foleo suddenly became outmoded as it was designed atop a different environment altogether. I’m fairly unsurprised by the […]

I recently brought Polycom’s SoundPoint IP 550 and 650 phones into the lab as part of a wider look at the benefits of high-definition VOIP (voice over IP). Although the G.722 codec Polycom uses to achieve HD Voice is not widely supported at this time, Polycom promised that the open-source Asterisk project would support it, […]